For readers and the people who connect them.
SMS-enabled reading list
Someone mentions a book on a podcast, in a group chat, or across the table—text an ISBN, Amazon link, barcode photo, or title to TBR.fyi and it lands on your shelf. Or use the web UI. No app to install. No account to remember. Add notes, change status, create custom shelves, if and when you want.
Newsletter archive platform
Eleven years of book reviews from Phinney Books newsletter, preserved, accessible, and searchable. Good recommendations shouldn't disappear into email archives. 1,200+ book reviews with rich metadata, ISBN information, bookshop.org affiliate linking, cover images and a rotating "book of the day". Designed for exploration and discovery.
Feature-rich regional bestseller lists
What's actually selling at indie bookstores? Regional bestseller tracking across all eight bookseller associations, updated weekly. See what's selling elsewhere and track trends over time. Built on a parsed and formatted rendering of data provided by the American Booksellers Association.
Turning a bookstore's monthly newsletter into durable, searchable assets
Staff reviews, event listings, and editorial content are structured in Sanity CMS. When editors hit publish, three things are ready at once: an email newsletter in Mailchimp, a print-ready PDF via DocRaptor, and new staff reviews formatted for IndieCommerce import — linking every title to the store's own shopfront. A review archive surfaces every staff pick as a durable, searchable recommendation linked to its bookseller and context, turning a monthly newsletter into a growing, discoverable body of curated opinion, owned as data outside of any vendor or platform.
Twenty years in ecommerce, and literary nonprofits and bookselling—I've worked the floor, managed the systems, and watched the industry evolve. Now I'm at Port Book and News on the Olympic Peninsula, where I split my time between both buying and selling books and building tools like these.
I like making new ways to encounter what's interesting. Most of my projects start from the same question: what would actually help readers and the people who sell to them? The answer usually isn't another app to download or account to manage.
If you're a bookstore looking to do something with your data, newsletter archive, or community programming—or if you have a book-adjacent project that needs someone who understands both the tech and the trade—I'd like to hear about it.